Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren't doing anything. One of the attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not they are working simply by looking at them. Very often they're sitting there seemingly drinking coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space. What the programmer is trying to do is get a handle on all the individual and unrelated ideas that are scampering around in his head.
Charles M Strauss
You're never done, you just run out of time.
Anonymous
In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.
Anonymous
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.
Alan J. Perlis
When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.
Anonymous
'Goto' is always evil, like in 'goto school' or 'goto work'.
Anonymous
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
Alan J. Perlis
So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf.
Alan J. Perlis
If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong.
Anonymous